Oh you most certainly are benifiting from those laws and social structures. But i think you have a unique oportunity to tell what details you know. It is important to create historic continuity. Especially with slavery sice the revisionist did such a good job of crafting the nerrative.

Since you are my age you also have a responsibility to our generation to remind people how close we are to those times.

Creationism also offers a feeling of holding some surpressed knowledge. Its a whole knowledge system that can be bought into. That is a very satisfying option for people who are uneducated and poor. Its a way to flip the power through faith.

Its the same with any pseudoscience. Its very appealing to insecure people.

"You won't find me starving in the woods because I'm not childish enough to think that it's reasonable I can forage all of my calories. I would hike in food with me."

You have said it better than I could lol.

I think "survivalists" and some bushcraft people get defensive when their knowledge is challenged by real data. But it kind of scares me to think that there are people out there who have confidence in foraging for calories.

Optimum foraging strategy for a bio-region between the great plains and eastern woodlands but my data was being collected from urban areas and compared to historic records.

Humans are still subject to carrying capacity of their environments in foraging situations. Im also not talking about going out here and there gathering but feeding yourself and your extended family on gathered foods.

Indigenous people had/have complex systems of environmental management that was developed over centuries of observation and experience. Even they had moments of punctuated starvation and resource depletion. Im an anthropologist who studies wild foods and food systems.

If i stuck you in the wild i can almost garentee that you would not be able to gather enough calories to not slowly starve or get sick from some nutritional disorder.